The Off Topic Topic

[Malthus]

My elder cat (nearly 17) has kidney issues. Now the vet has us giving her subcutaneous infusions of Ringer's lactate solution twice a week.

Let me tell you, our cat does not appreciate being held still for several minutes and stuck with a big needle, while fluid drips into her hide. 

Seems to work though.

Edit: it's amazing how the cats in the instruction videos just sit there and take it without a protest. Evidently, we lack the ability to train our cat to accept this ...

Our younger cat and our dog are both very well behaved for the vet, though neither have had to go through anything like that, and it is the pros doing the shots and such, not us.

Still need to get the older cat to the vet, though.  Don't know how that will go.

How old are your cats, Raz?

Oh, ours is fine for the vet (because she is terrified!  ).

When the vet sticks the needle in, she just sits there on that steel examining table, looking scared.

However, our cat is not terrified of us, and so when we attempt to hold her and stick the needle in her, she gets pissed off about it.

The sticking of the needle though isn't the hard part - the hard part is getting her to sit still while the stuff drips into her. I don't think the needle hurts her much, but sitting still while fluid drips into her hide really gets her annoyed.

[Duque de Bragança]

La Fayette looking like Macron ?! WUT?

[Admiral Yi]

He looks more like Terrance Hill.

[Duque de Bragança]

That's not nice for Mario Girotti.

[Syt]

Meanwhile in Carinthia:

[Valmy]

It pretty much already is found in specially designated spaces in Europe and has been for decades if not centuries.

[HVC]

so... they gonna replant those trees after?

[Valmy]

so... they gonna replant those trees after?

Wait so that football stadium is not permanently being transformed into a forest? Die Wörtherseefußballerwald

[Valmy]

La Fayette looking like Macron ?! WUT?

Well they are both heroes unappreciated by their ungrateful country

[Iormlund]

It pretty much already is found in specially designated spaces in Europe and has been for decades if not centuries.

Probably much longer than that. Plato already complains about deforestation around Athens.

[Barrister]

It pretty much already is found in specially designated spaces in Europe and has been for decades if not centuries.

I thought I read somewhere that Europe is more forested right now then it has been in centuries?

[Syt]

so... they gonna replant those trees after?

Yes, they will be used for reforestation afetrwards.

[Syt]

[Duque de Bragança]

La Fayette looking like Macron ?! WUT?

Well they are both heroes unappreciated by their ungrateful country

[Grey Fox]

There's more forest in my kids school yard than in that stadium.